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It will take rebuilding trust, protecting public spaces, and reviving the cultural bonds that once made the village not just a place to live, but also a community worth belonging to.
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It will take rebuilding trust, protecting public spaces, and reviving the cultural bonds that once made the village not just a place to live, but also a community worth belonging to.
the dearth of public libraries in many cities nationwide has led to arduous commutes and hefty transportation costs.
In Pakistan, music thrives not because it is streamed, but because it is lived.
Sociologists call civility the invisible glue that holds a society together. When that glue weakens, trust falls apart and when trust disappears, fairness becomes a myth.
For many Pakistanis, last mile delivery platforms are no longer just a source of convenience but an important source of livelihood.
The poverty of imagination and creativity is self-evident in policy making, where no transformational, indigenous and speedy mechanism has been proposed to address the hardships of the litigants. Civil disputes are a classic example of the prevailing inertia.
Until the state wakes up to take steps, it is society itself that has to break the chains of such abuses and harassments, by fostering child–parent dialogue, raising awareness of child…
To romanticise the present as a golden age is misleading, yet dismissing it as a crisis of saturation is equally reductive.
It’s strange, the things we hold back. A simple ‘I’m sorry’. A ‘thank you’. A message that says, ‘I was thinking of you.’
The 3 PM children’s program, normally featuring folk tales, was repurposed to broadcast lists of survivors arriving at refugee camps – a heartbreaking roll call of the displaced that often ran for hours without interruption.
All legal systems depend on case law that establishes precedents and forces judges to confront the logic of their predecessors.
The forgetfulness isn’t accidental; it’s carved out of conscious political decisions.
In contrast, knowledge that is tested, explained, and placed in context empowers students to think critically and act responsibly.
He didn’t seek to outsmart ageing with complex regimens. Instead, he leaned into the fundamentals: stay active, connect meaningfully and cultivate calm.
The rising number of motorcycles on Pakistani roads has become one of the biggest challenges for traffic management and has made road users more vulnerable to fatal accidents.
Globally, a search committee is expected to actively scout, assess, and recruit the best possible candidates. Its job is not merely to screen applicants, but to ensure that top talen is brought into the fold.
We already possess the resilience, critical mass and potential for change. The question is not what to do, but how to do it. It will take a generation, but we must begin.
The challenge is not to abandon liberalism but to radicalise it, ground it in our own histories, and reclaim its emancipatory core.
City Courts, like many institutions in our country, operates informally, and that informality, at times, works to everyone’s advantage.
Let’s make room for youth, respect the wisdom of age, and build institutions where tenure is limited, performance is rewarded and experience is rechanneled, not discarded.
If someone uses your face in a deepfake, even for scams, politics, or porn, you will have full legal power to take it down in Denmark.
For those of us who call this magnificent coastal metropolis home, Karachi will always be Roshnion ka Sheher – not just for the electricity that powers our lights, but for the undimmed spirit of its people that truly makes this city shine.
When the spirit of inclusion died, the culture of enquiry within Islamic civilization waned.
Each of us is a custodian of the national soul. Through our choices, our conversations, and our communities, we shape the future. That work does not begin someday. It begins here, and it begins now.
And yet, those consequences fall squarely on the shoulders of the litigant. A faulty ruling can cost them property, liberty, livelihood or all three. But the system takes no note. No one is held responsible for the ruin of a life.
Every sane individual understands that the world’s civilisations are currently engaged in a strenuous struggle. They are, quite literally, working on a war footing to keep their individual identities intact within this rapidly shrinking global village.
We are a nation of givers. Now let us become a nation of enablers, of dreams, of dignity and of opportunity.
While individual successes are often celebrated as strokes of genius, economists increasingly agree that entrepreneurship is seldom a solo endeavour. The romanticised image of the lone maverick entrepreneur, they argue, is largely a myth.
It is better to suffer with good men than to enjoy a feast with the wicked—or as a Spanish proverb says, it is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools.
A recent incident at a leading public university in Islamabad has raised serious concerns. In this episode, students forcefully shut down the institution by initiating a strike, locking the entry and exit gates, halting the transportation system indefinitely, and disrupting in-person classes for over a week.
The industry doesn’t need special subsidies or fancy schemes. Just fix the tariff structure. Because what’s brewing in Pakistan right now isn’t just coffee-it’s potential.
a society, we have come to accept dysfunction as the norm. Public service in Pakistan appears to be disconnected from the idea of accountability, and citizens are too often resigned to helplessness or apathy.
People no longer care about violence, discrimination, harassment, or conflicts. They are just too busy doing their everyday work to show their commitment or try to defend higher moral ideals.
Now is the time to reconstruct the idea of school as a sanctuary, where children are protected and given the space and support to learn, explore their best selves and express ideas with confidence.
This is not merely a reform. It is a reclamation – of voice, of dignity, and of the right to understand and shape the laws that govern us. In the words of a very recent judgment of the Indian Supreme Court “Let us make friends with Urdu…”
New career pathways can open up for humanities students if they have a strong base in philosophy, history, literature, education, art and culture.
A mob passes through no phases to self-destruct; there is no contemplation, a forethought, preparation; the reactions are impulsively, emotionally and sentimentally inspired, leading to temporary insanity.
Many tech executives keep their children away from digital screen. It suggests that ‘they don’t think the benefits always outweigh the risks.’
The nationalisation of educational institutions did make education available to the Awam at no or low cost. In the long run, however, it began to gnaw at the quality of education, largely due to a massive decline in the quality of teachers.
You can bring the rich to the level of the poor overnight but it takes a lifetime to lift the poor to the level of the rich. [Irish proverb] During the 1970s, Pakistan went in for wholesale nationalization of its private enterprises, taking even educational institutions into the state’s hands.
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